Working with the highly qualified and experienced TrExMed founders, Dr Jim Bond and Nicky Armstrong (both travel medicine experts and seasoned travellers), we’ve created a site that covers all the bases.

The human brain is a remarkable thing (so far, so obvious). But what's even more remarkable is some of the science now being deployed to better understand how it's affected by what it has to go through in the real world.

For those not familiar with early 20th century philanthropists from the world of literary fiction, some explanation is in order. The 'Buck' in question was William 'Buck' Clarence, a character whose itinerant exploits as the archetypal 'Englishman abroad' were widely read and enjoyed from the 1900s to the 1930s.

Established by James Kerr as The Volunteer Arms back in 1871 (The Canny Man’s was a local nickname for it) in the capital’s bustling Morningside area, this much-cherished Edinburgh institution has been cared for by successive generations of Kerrs ever since.